Vegetarianism At The Health Exhibition.- VEGETAitiANISaE AT TIME IEXLTz EXHBITION. IThe Vegetarian Society gave a dinner on Thursday nigbt in the restaurantcarried onunder their direction in the Health Exhibition, when the chair was taken by Dr. B. W. Richardson, and many other gentlemen, who might be de- scribed, in the words of the chairman, as also semi-carni. vorous, were present to test the resources of a vegetarian regimton, from which it was understood eggs and butter were not excluded. The mean included soups-tomato and rice and lentil ; esitsHes-green (sugar) corn, or young maize, oaton grits, and macaroni au 9ratins; removes- bruised haricots, savoury omelette, curried mushrooms and rice, and bread fritters; cntremets-boiled chestnuts, samp pudding, and vegetable marrow aic gratiss ; vegetables- Brussels sprouts,potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, and baked turnips; sweets-barley pudding, Ceylon pudding, apple and damson tart, vegetable custard, Iceland moss jelly, and pineapple ;steved fruits-pears, apricots, French plums. Vfor dessert, in addition to several varieties of grapes, pears, apples, land tnuts, there were served bananas, Spanish melons, greengage-tomatoes, and Brazilian oranges. The beverages, besides lemonade, seltzer, and zoedone, were palatable unfermented concoctions, such as sparkling hop and morella, pear and other so-called fruit champagnes. Dr. Richardson, describing himself as one for whom the flesh-pots had not entirely lost their savour, said he thought all present would admit tnat they had partaken of anagree- able, satisfying, and wholesome dinner. It seemed to him that therelwas in society a change of tone with regard to this question of food, and, at least among those who, if not sick, were out of sorts and in want of rest and recreation, a growling dislike to animal food, and this was especially the case with ladies. Entering then upon the examrination of some physiological questions, he expressed the belief that man might by care in the selection and preparation of certain kinds of vegetable food become a liver upon a vege- table diet. Blan, he believed, was really a fruit-eatiug animal,but if this society succeeded in attaining its objects it would be making certain advances towards those natural necessities which we saw in man himself. They must not hold altogether to the diet being wholly vetetable.and they must select those things from the vegetable world which were most suited to the digestive system of man, modifying them by art so as to assimilate them, as far as possible, to the condition of those animal products upon which we knew that men could subsist. The number of fruits available for the table might be increased ;the cultivation of mushrooms might be most beneficially extended by utilizing that which was now refuse difficult to get rid of and a source of danger to health; other edible fungi like the bovisties or puff-ball a delicious and nutritious article of food, might be intro: duced; and fern-roots, as fine flavoure(d when properly cooked as asparagus, might be brought to table. But vege. tarians musb go to chemistry as well as to cookery in order todoentirely witbout the transforming power of the animal in converting vegetable food to the use of man. Cheese for instance, as the Chinese had know-n for ages, might ie made without milk, from the lentil,and there was no doubt that we should discover a way to make milk, aud that some day milk would be producec on as large a scale as beer was now in our breweries. After dealing with the questionoftbesufficiencyofvegetablefoods for the sup.: port of man in extremes of temperature, he glance(d at tho changes, physical land moral, 'whichl the adoption of a vege- table dietary would probably produce on civilized mao, es- pecially mentioning a diminution of the craving foranico. holscodriniks. Several vegetarianis then gave their testimony to the healthfulness and suScicncy of a diet of grain or ogentleman in anser to the objection th alOt if ceased to rear animnals weo should lose our supply of clothing, stated that his dress-cotton velveteen coat dars linen drill waistcoat, corduroy tronisers, black canvas sh oes WIth gutta pereks soles-wa wbol4x oE vcgzbab1l